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User Name/Nick: Danii
User DW: yarnzipan
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact: yarnzipan @ plurk / gamenotifications @ gmail
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Jon Sims, Kiryu Kazuma, Vlad Dracula Tepes, John Doe
Character Name: John Gaius, His Celestial Kindliness, the First Reborn, The Necrolord Prime also known as God
Series: The Locked Tomb Quadrology by Tamsyn Muir
Age: 10,000+, looks like he's in his late 20s, early 30s
From When?: The moment when Augustine drags him into the River. It's as close to death as he can get.
Inmate Justification: John Gaius is probably the best example you're apt to find of good intentions paving the way to hell. He's a fun guy, a 'good' guy, a nice guy who's funny and cares about his friends and was trying to save humanity as a whole instead of letting the trillionaires flee earth and leave everyone else fucked... who also decided to set up a cult, puppet a major world leader to fool the masses for obscene amounts of money, set off a nuclear weapon in a city center to start nuclear Armageddon, got all of his friends killed, devoured the soul of his own planet, and every other planet in his solar system, and somehow didn't stop that from happening.
And that was just how he became God. I can't say it's gotten worse from there but it definitely hasn't gotten better.
Arrival: 100% against his will; he's going to fight the idea that he even died because he can't die.
Abilities/Powers:
[canon]
John? Is... God of his universe. Total power over life and death. Humans, plants, animals, you name it. The very sun draws its power from him. He's literally indestructible through normal means, and he heals almost instantly from literally anything including being completely torn apart to the atomic level. His existence is tied to the very soul of the planet Earth and he can't die properly while her body and soul exist. On top of that, things dying around him both empower him and give him pleasure, and he can literally just devour their life energy whole om nom. His reach is in lightyears.
He was empowered by/in a weird love-hate relationship with the Earth itself with/figured out the secrets of the power to manipulate thalergy (life energy) and thanergy (death energy), becoming the first necromancer. Initially, this allowed him to heal any injury, infirmary, or illness. It also allowed him to manipulate and empower the dead, manipulate the flesh, bone, and spirit of the living, and shape all of them as he liked. Once he devoured the solar system, complete with the sun, he gained the power of Resurrection, bringing planets et all back to a true existence, albeit one that generates stable thanergy as opposed to thalergy. He revived the sun, the solar system, and a portion of the people that he grew into an empire. But that isn't quite it.
He figured out the Lyctoral process and achieved Perfect Lyctorhood, which is a whole class above the Lyctor described there. It makes him faster, stronger, tougher, and almost instantly healing. That's where he became truly immortal and upped his power game even further. He also has access to his cavalier's skills and strength, specifically with a rapier, etc.
And he's been experimenting and working and fiddling and perfecting and learning more and more for 10,000 years. He's also, in a much less dramatic manner, been 'devouring' more and more planets over the years to convert them for colonization. There's no one who's better at it than John and he definitely qualifies as a genius-level scientist. Here's some information on Necromancers. We've seen them do things like grow whole skeletons from a single tooth or use their mucus as a floor covering to catch people in a sticky trap. Put their own bone marrow, powdered, into a soup to grow an entire skeleton out of someone's stomach. We know Jon can manipulate bodies to make them hard as steel while still flexible. He once made a giant shield of bone and blood and meat to defend from ballistic weaponry that covered a buliding. He can disintegrate people with a thought.
TLDR, totally broken game mechanics when it comes to physical and spiritual bodies of anything organic and a lot of body horror.
[in game]
WOOF. I'm going to say:
Inmate Information:
That's John in a nutshell. He is your quintessential 'nice' guy who was just doing what he had to do, man, it was just a mistake, man, things got out of hand, man. It's always everyone else's fault, it's always a totally understandable reason why he did something; he's got an excuse or a fall guy or an out no matter what horrible atrocity he commits. Someone compared him telling his backstory to an AITA post and they aren't wrong. He can't stand not being in the 'right' and while he'll play humble and wise and warm and friendly, doubting him or calling him to the carpet is a quick way to get him to take the kid gloves off because you 'forced' him into it. He's not God when he doesn't want to get someone's hopes up or live up to expectations, but he's God when you question him and he doesn't want to answer you. He isn't avoiding consequences, he's erasing his friends memories to make things 'simpler' and 'easier' for them and not to confuse them. He didn't lock someone away in a tomb for 10,000 years because it guarantees his immortality and then she won't rip his face off; he did it because if his friends knew they did the whole lyctor thing wrong they'd be sad. And he couldn't tell them they did it wrong, could he? No. Of course not.
And while his creativity and brilliant mind are great for lots of things, he doesn't like to admit to or face his failures and those can get pretty big and pretty awful because of his out of the box thinking. The kind of thing like negotiating for a suitcase nuke to be able to use for bargaining against world powers, that sort of thing. Streaming miracles on Twitch. Allowing a cult to form around him to use for manipulating government agents and gaining enough power to make the world governments pay attention to them... and being just as willing to let those people die in a firefight when those governments decide to attack him and his cultists try to protect him.
He defuses and handles people using humor and a disarming personality without pretension but he'll snap out with violence and consequences almost quicker than you can think of it if he's displeased. And LORDY, is he vindictive. To the point where it can blind him to all else and all sense, no matter who's trying to get his head straight. He feels bad about it later, of course (SOMETIMES), but he won't stop doing the same terrible shit. He claims at one point that he's not someone who makes mistakes like that, of course, but earlier in the same story, points out that something he did is a 'mistake' anyone would make in his circumstances. It's super creepy and obvious that he'll do what he needs to do and say what he needs to say to get what he wants. The unreliable narrator is STRONG in this one and worst off, it's not because he doesn't know better. And holy hell is he self-righteous. He can always find a reason he was in the right, they were in the wrong, and his complete over-reaction was totally justified. He's more focused on punishing people than anything else, like, to an unhealthy degree. He's practically obsessed with it. And if he's wrong? And if he wasn't in the right, well, he's REALLY sorry and he feels super bad about it but how could he have prevented it? He's the good guy, dammit. He's the hero here! He was doing what needed to be done! What no one else was doing!
And obviously, he changed, he learned from his experiences! The story always shifts. And he can. not. handle being wrong. He cannot handle the idea that it could have been done BETTER. The situation was just fucked; it wasn't him. There's a bit back on Earth where he used a field of cattle to make a giant shield to save people and people got upset with him because it killed a bunch of cows. And for the rest of the book he keeps complaining about how people won't shut up about cows having best friends and cows this cows that and it's so obvious that he's three seconds from going full JKR and writing a 1000 page screed about his twitter critics and cows. It's that bad.
Despite having the very best of intentions (save humanity, save everyone instead of just rich people), he is absolutely the worst person to get power because every bit of it he gets, he handles by wanting more and by making excuses for that by making out like it's to help other people. He never has enough power not to be an excuse for why it's not his fault, though. So clearly he needs more! And he's a goddamn coward who'll send other people out into harms way when he himself can't. fucking. die. Clearly, he's too important to risk, after all! Until the most recent book, he made out like there was some great tragedy that happened that left him alone in the solar system, something just 'happened' and he survived, but the fact is that 1. he caused the Earth-based events that started it, like, completely and 2. he's the one who devoured the souls/energy/life of the planets and the sun. Not for defense or to save anyone... but because he wanted to kill some fuckers and just couldn't stop. Because he was angry at a bunch of people on a starship and he wanted to kill them and even then, he didn't end up killing the one group of people who he wanted to kill/caused the problem.
He's a giant hypocrite, and a manipulative ass who'll lie, cheat, steal, destroy, kill, erase, or whatever else he has to do that is completely awful to keep people thinking and believing and feeling how he wants them to. There's definite notes of abusive relationship that he has with all of the lyctors: for the younger ones he acts like a 'guiding mentor' with all the actual benevolence of Humbert Humbert and for the older ones, he's the on again off again you never want to make mad and maybe you sleep with him for old times and so he doesn't make trouble for you. And when one of those older lyctors tried to kill him, well... 'justice' was swift despite 10,000 years of friendship, love, and loyal service. Again, super vindictive. And the whole lyctor thing has it's problems too since the process legitimately made people kill their best friend/beloveds and it also basically sent a bunch of giant spirit monsters after all of them which he'd SAY was just an unfortunate side effect but man did it split their attention from going after just him and make them super dependent on him. And did I mention that every one of those people were his friends who he got killed, erased the memories of, and brought back and renamed?
The worst part is... he knows. He knows he's a piece of shit. He knows he's a garbage fire, that he's just been tumbling farther and farther down hill, picking up more terrible shit, never losing momentum and dragging more and more people into his bullshit the whole time. He knows he's wiped the memories of his friends to avoid consequences. He knows he's let people DIE to avoid consequences. His sadness isn't fake. He hates himself. The biggest problem is that he's just unwilling to look back at his mistakes and see where he went wrong, that what he did isn't just sad, it was wrong. That it wasn't 'terrible things happening' to him over and over again, but the consequences of his own actions that keep getting worse and worse and worse. He'd rather avoid and push off and run away from his problems (literally!! he's been running away from the revenants created by his planet splurge for 10,000 years) and violently react to people who try and call him on his shit then actually face all of that and try to change or do better.
TL;DR superpowerful former streamer now intergalactic emperor nice guy with anger issues who's had his bullshit reinforced for 10,000 years hates himself but not enough to change.
Path to Redemption: John's path to redemption is simple but brutal: face the fact that he, by and large, has actually done just about everything wrong both on a universal and a personal level, stop making excuses for his choices and behavior that are clearly just to enable him to continue to be shitty, and start treating other people like people instead of things that he can control and customize to his whims. John, somehow, despite being *God* cannot accept that He's The Man as opposed to seeing himself as the wounded party and the one who 'has to' do X because of Y. He'll need to resolve to make right with his friends and companions as well as give up his hatred of the Blood of Eden for the bullshit reasons he hates them. (There are valid issues with them, but his anger isn't about those). He needs to get over his need to punish people (because despite not being The Man, it's his place and his duty to avenge the planet and make people pay!) and revenge himself and others and refocus himself properly.
History: HERE
Sample Network Entry: I wish I could believe this is real.
I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of people who'd be upset to be here. It's a prison, after all. Who likes prison? But it's like a Norweigian prison with full amenities and plenty of activities. Or maybe more like the Villages, minus the wrinkles and the STDs.
Not that I'm complaining. Like I said. I wish this could be real. I wish I could believe I'm watching Better Call Saul again in a beautiful library, playing video games on a Playstation, a Playstation! I haven't gotten to play Playstation, any Playstation, in...
A long damn time.
I even wish I believed I could be punished properly.
But fact of the matter is, I know I'm not dead. So I know I can't be here. Which means that none of this is real. I don't know what it is, some sort of weird dream state that one of those traitors came up with which, seriously?
Cool but not cool. 100% not kosher. Not that there's been rabbis since there were Playstations, but you get what I'm saying, right? Right.
It does make me pretty impressed with myself, though. Because I had no idea that I could write screenplays this good for the seasons I never got. Since this is all in my head. Right? Right.
Sample RP: TDM | TDM | TDM
Special Notes: Anything else not covered here that you'd like us to know!
User DW: yarnzipan
E-mail/Plurk/Discord/PM to a character journal/alternate method of contact: yarnzipan @ plurk / gamenotifications @ gmail
Other Characters Currently In-Game: Jon Sims, Kiryu Kazuma, Vlad Dracula Tepes, John Doe
Character Name: John Gaius, His Celestial Kindliness, the First Reborn, The Necrolord Prime also known as God
Series: The Locked Tomb Quadrology by Tamsyn Muir
Age: 10,000+, looks like he's in his late 20s, early 30s
From When?: The moment when Augustine drags him into the River. It's as close to death as he can get.
Inmate Justification: John Gaius is probably the best example you're apt to find of good intentions paving the way to hell. He's a fun guy, a 'good' guy, a nice guy who's funny and cares about his friends and was trying to save humanity as a whole instead of letting the trillionaires flee earth and leave everyone else fucked... who also decided to set up a cult, puppet a major world leader to fool the masses for obscene amounts of money, set off a nuclear weapon in a city center to start nuclear Armageddon, got all of his friends killed, devoured the soul of his own planet, and every other planet in his solar system, and somehow didn't stop that from happening.
And that was just how he became God. I can't say it's gotten worse from there but it definitely hasn't gotten better.
Arrival: 100% against his will; he's going to fight the idea that he even died because he can't die.
Abilities/Powers:
[canon]
John? Is... God of his universe. Total power over life and death. Humans, plants, animals, you name it. The very sun draws its power from him. He's literally indestructible through normal means, and he heals almost instantly from literally anything including being completely torn apart to the atomic level. His existence is tied to the very soul of the planet Earth and he can't die properly while her body and soul exist. On top of that, things dying around him both empower him and give him pleasure, and he can literally just devour their life energy whole om nom. His reach is in lightyears.
He was empowered by/in a weird love-hate relationship with the Earth itself with/figured out the secrets of the power to manipulate thalergy (life energy) and thanergy (death energy), becoming the first necromancer. Initially, this allowed him to heal any injury, infirmary, or illness. It also allowed him to manipulate and empower the dead, manipulate the flesh, bone, and spirit of the living, and shape all of them as he liked. Once he devoured the solar system, complete with the sun, he gained the power of Resurrection, bringing planets et all back to a true existence, albeit one that generates stable thanergy as opposed to thalergy. He revived the sun, the solar system, and a portion of the people that he grew into an empire. But that isn't quite it.
He figured out the Lyctoral process and achieved Perfect Lyctorhood, which is a whole class above the Lyctor described there. It makes him faster, stronger, tougher, and almost instantly healing. That's where he became truly immortal and upped his power game even further. He also has access to his cavalier's skills and strength, specifically with a rapier, etc.
And he's been experimenting and working and fiddling and perfecting and learning more and more for 10,000 years. He's also, in a much less dramatic manner, been 'devouring' more and more planets over the years to convert them for colonization. There's no one who's better at it than John and he definitely qualifies as a genius-level scientist. Here's some information on Necromancers. We've seen them do things like grow whole skeletons from a single tooth or use their mucus as a floor covering to catch people in a sticky trap. Put their own bone marrow, powdered, into a soup to grow an entire skeleton out of someone's stomach. We know Jon can manipulate bodies to make them hard as steel while still flexible. He once made a giant shield of bone and blood and meat to defend from ballistic weaponry that covered a buliding. He can disintegrate people with a thought.
TLDR, totally broken game mechanics when it comes to physical and spiritual bodies of anything organic and a lot of body horror.
[in game]
WOOF. I'm going to say:
- limited to affecting his own body/spirit with his necromancy without explicit consent from the other party
- limited affect on plants and already-dead non-sentient creatures (ie, a chicken bone from a meal)
- as part of that, anything he makes/any construct he makes/any augmentation even with his own body material will disintegrate/be undone upon touching another person's body without that consent
- can sense thalergy and thanergy (see permission post for details for specific characters)
- his physical powers are nerfed to better than human but still beatable by a baseline human with training
- no resurrection
- no access to the River
- the most he can make is the equivalent of two skeleton servants or half that mass for flesh, which he can break up or spread out as he likes but also follow the disintegration rules
- personal healing is nerfed to normal lyctor levels (aka can handle a lot of things, regenerate, but beheading will work)
- still can get high off of people dying near him (...he needs some lessons there) but cannot utilize that energy
Inmate Information:
That's John in a nutshell. He is your quintessential 'nice' guy who was just doing what he had to do, man, it was just a mistake, man, things got out of hand, man. It's always everyone else's fault, it's always a totally understandable reason why he did something; he's got an excuse or a fall guy or an out no matter what horrible atrocity he commits. Someone compared him telling his backstory to an AITA post and they aren't wrong. He can't stand not being in the 'right' and while he'll play humble and wise and warm and friendly, doubting him or calling him to the carpet is a quick way to get him to take the kid gloves off because you 'forced' him into it. He's not God when he doesn't want to get someone's hopes up or live up to expectations, but he's God when you question him and he doesn't want to answer you. He isn't avoiding consequences, he's erasing his friends memories to make things 'simpler' and 'easier' for them and not to confuse them. He didn't lock someone away in a tomb for 10,000 years because it guarantees his immortality and then she won't rip his face off; he did it because if his friends knew they did the whole lyctor thing wrong they'd be sad. And he couldn't tell them they did it wrong, could he? No. Of course not.
And while his creativity and brilliant mind are great for lots of things, he doesn't like to admit to or face his failures and those can get pretty big and pretty awful because of his out of the box thinking. The kind of thing like negotiating for a suitcase nuke to be able to use for bargaining against world powers, that sort of thing. Streaming miracles on Twitch. Allowing a cult to form around him to use for manipulating government agents and gaining enough power to make the world governments pay attention to them... and being just as willing to let those people die in a firefight when those governments decide to attack him and his cultists try to protect him.
He defuses and handles people using humor and a disarming personality without pretension but he'll snap out with violence and consequences almost quicker than you can think of it if he's displeased. And LORDY, is he vindictive. To the point where it can blind him to all else and all sense, no matter who's trying to get his head straight. He feels bad about it later, of course (SOMETIMES), but he won't stop doing the same terrible shit. He claims at one point that he's not someone who makes mistakes like that, of course, but earlier in the same story, points out that something he did is a 'mistake' anyone would make in his circumstances. It's super creepy and obvious that he'll do what he needs to do and say what he needs to say to get what he wants. The unreliable narrator is STRONG in this one and worst off, it's not because he doesn't know better. And holy hell is he self-righteous. He can always find a reason he was in the right, they were in the wrong, and his complete over-reaction was totally justified. He's more focused on punishing people than anything else, like, to an unhealthy degree. He's practically obsessed with it. And if he's wrong? And if he wasn't in the right, well, he's REALLY sorry and he feels super bad about it but how could he have prevented it? He's the good guy, dammit. He's the hero here! He was doing what needed to be done! What no one else was doing!
And obviously, he changed, he learned from his experiences! The story always shifts. And he can. not. handle being wrong. He cannot handle the idea that it could have been done BETTER. The situation was just fucked; it wasn't him. There's a bit back on Earth where he used a field of cattle to make a giant shield to save people and people got upset with him because it killed a bunch of cows. And for the rest of the book he keeps complaining about how people won't shut up about cows having best friends and cows this cows that and it's so obvious that he's three seconds from going full JKR and writing a 1000 page screed about his twitter critics and cows. It's that bad.
Despite having the very best of intentions (save humanity, save everyone instead of just rich people), he is absolutely the worst person to get power because every bit of it he gets, he handles by wanting more and by making excuses for that by making out like it's to help other people. He never has enough power not to be an excuse for why it's not his fault, though. So clearly he needs more! And he's a goddamn coward who'll send other people out into harms way when he himself can't. fucking. die. Clearly, he's too important to risk, after all! Until the most recent book, he made out like there was some great tragedy that happened that left him alone in the solar system, something just 'happened' and he survived, but the fact is that 1. he caused the Earth-based events that started it, like, completely and 2. he's the one who devoured the souls/energy/life of the planets and the sun. Not for defense or to save anyone... but because he wanted to kill some fuckers and just couldn't stop. Because he was angry at a bunch of people on a starship and he wanted to kill them and even then, he didn't end up killing the one group of people who he wanted to kill/caused the problem.
He's a giant hypocrite, and a manipulative ass who'll lie, cheat, steal, destroy, kill, erase, or whatever else he has to do that is completely awful to keep people thinking and believing and feeling how he wants them to. There's definite notes of abusive relationship that he has with all of the lyctors: for the younger ones he acts like a 'guiding mentor' with all the actual benevolence of Humbert Humbert and for the older ones, he's the on again off again you never want to make mad and maybe you sleep with him for old times and so he doesn't make trouble for you. And when one of those older lyctors tried to kill him, well... 'justice' was swift despite 10,000 years of friendship, love, and loyal service. Again, super vindictive. And the whole lyctor thing has it's problems too since the process legitimately made people kill their best friend/beloveds and it also basically sent a bunch of giant spirit monsters after all of them which he'd SAY was just an unfortunate side effect but man did it split their attention from going after just him and make them super dependent on him. And did I mention that every one of those people were his friends who he got killed, erased the memories of, and brought back and renamed?
The worst part is... he knows. He knows he's a piece of shit. He knows he's a garbage fire, that he's just been tumbling farther and farther down hill, picking up more terrible shit, never losing momentum and dragging more and more people into his bullshit the whole time. He knows he's wiped the memories of his friends to avoid consequences. He knows he's let people DIE to avoid consequences. His sadness isn't fake. He hates himself. The biggest problem is that he's just unwilling to look back at his mistakes and see where he went wrong, that what he did isn't just sad, it was wrong. That it wasn't 'terrible things happening' to him over and over again, but the consequences of his own actions that keep getting worse and worse and worse. He'd rather avoid and push off and run away from his problems (literally!! he's been running away from the revenants created by his planet splurge for 10,000 years) and violently react to people who try and call him on his shit then actually face all of that and try to change or do better.
TL;DR superpowerful former streamer now intergalactic emperor nice guy with anger issues who's had his bullshit reinforced for 10,000 years hates himself but not enough to change.
Path to Redemption: John's path to redemption is simple but brutal: face the fact that he, by and large, has actually done just about everything wrong both on a universal and a personal level, stop making excuses for his choices and behavior that are clearly just to enable him to continue to be shitty, and start treating other people like people instead of things that he can control and customize to his whims. John, somehow, despite being *God* cannot accept that He's The Man as opposed to seeing himself as the wounded party and the one who 'has to' do X because of Y. He'll need to resolve to make right with his friends and companions as well as give up his hatred of the Blood of Eden for the bullshit reasons he hates them. (There are valid issues with them, but his anger isn't about those). He needs to get over his need to punish people (because despite not being The Man, it's his place and his duty to avenge the planet and make people pay!) and revenge himself and others and refocus himself properly.
History: HERE
Sample Network Entry: I wish I could believe this is real.
I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of people who'd be upset to be here. It's a prison, after all. Who likes prison? But it's like a Norweigian prison with full amenities and plenty of activities. Or maybe more like the Villages, minus the wrinkles and the STDs.
Not that I'm complaining. Like I said. I wish this could be real. I wish I could believe I'm watching Better Call Saul again in a beautiful library, playing video games on a Playstation, a Playstation! I haven't gotten to play Playstation, any Playstation, in...
A long damn time.
I even wish I believed I could be punished properly.
But fact of the matter is, I know I'm not dead. So I know I can't be here. Which means that none of this is real. I don't know what it is, some sort of weird dream state that one of those traitors came up with which, seriously?
Cool but not cool. 100% not kosher. Not that there's been rabbis since there were Playstations, but you get what I'm saying, right? Right.
It does make me pretty impressed with myself, though. Because I had no idea that I could write screenplays this good for the seasons I never got. Since this is all in my head. Right? Right.
Sample RP: TDM | TDM | TDM
Special Notes: Anything else not covered here that you'd like us to know!
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Pairing Comment
Character Journal:
Status: Inmate
Pairing Information:
John's... gonna take a bit. Because he feels bad about what he's done. Because he's had 10,000 years to wallow in it. Because he's created a situation that reinforced all of his bullshit for that long and made sure that everyone around him did the same. And because, like so many?
He started out idealistic. He started out right. His journey began while he was literally trying to save everyone on Earth and he was chosen for what he got because he was the one fighting hardest, fighting for everyone. It's just gone So Terribly Wrong and he has not at all course corrected. Because he's good at diverting blame, at shifting circumstances, at making excuses. He's also good at looking like he learned a lesson and Absolutely Not Learning it. He's incredibly self aware in the worst kind of way.
John's path to redemption is simple but brutal: face the fact that he, by and large, has actually done just about everything wrong both on a universal and a personal level, stop making excuses for his choices and behavior that are clearly just to enable him to continue to be shitty, and start treating other people like people instead of things that he can control and customize to his whims. John, somehow, despite being *God* cannot accept that He's The Man as opposed to seeing himself as the wounded party and the one who 'has to' do X because of Y. He'll need to resolve to make right with his friends and companions as well as give up his hatred of the Blood of Eden for the bullshit reasons he hates them. (There are valid issues with them, but his anger isn't about those). He needs to get over his need to punish people (because despite not being The Man, it's his place and his duty to avenge the planet and make people pay!) and revenge himself and others and refocus himself properly.
He's not got any particular needs on power or life experience or what have you to handle him: he's 10,000 years old and still memes like a 30 year old dude. Nothing is going to make him respect you or not respect you but yourself. What you are going to need is a lot of patience, a bullshit detector with a very sensitive setting, and the ability to empathize with someone THIS SHITTY because he won't LISTEN if you don't see his side of things, wrong or right. He's stupidly brilliant so he's going to be Clever but he's also lazy as fuck so it's going to be a narrow ledge between challenging him sometimes so he doesn't sludge up and not making trouble for yourself or others.
He's also got some very basic alcoholism and self-destructive choices around sex partners issues, and honestly if you're a player who has issues with body horror, he's PROBABLY not for you.
Not Covered In Canon File Notes
-family was normal and chill, only child
-had no pet himself
-met G as a child
-took up fencing in high school and continued in college
-terminally online during high school and college and beyond
-went to U of Auckland on a scholarship, triple majored, went biomed and bioengineering and chemistry, got a doctorate and two masters (doctor of medicine, master of biomedical sciences, master of biotechnology)
-lifelong environmentalist before Everything
-also very anti police as a teenager mellowed somewhat as an adult mostly due to Pyrrah as intermediary
-met A (TA) and M (fellow student) while at school
-never smoked before A
-end of the world started getting predicted shortly after he got out of school
-got the gig doing the research into cryonics via connections from A's family who were well connected but not super wealthy
-he absolutely did change their names from their originals before they died
-he restarted/resurrected them multiple times while they were the original group at Canaan House because a lot of the early attempts just had them dying
Nine Houses
Second House - Mars
Third House - Neptune
Fourth House - Saturn
Fifth House - Jupiter
Sixth House - Mercury
Seventh House - Venus
Eighth House - Uranus
Ninth House - Pluto
Graduation Comment
Character Name: John "Too Many Titles" Gaius
Path to Graduation: The time has come, the player said, to talk of many things. Of giant nerds and wonky stars, of kakapos and kings.
John's been on the barge for about a year and a half and in that time, it's been a slow and steady journey towards pulling his head out of his ass. The fact that he started by getting pulled naked off the deck by Douglass "Team Handcuffs" Eiffel was a pretty good start, though he had some troubles initially by setting off the Kill Bill sirens on not just one but two monster hunters who gave him big cop energy.
His first steps were in fixing those impressions: he made peace with Anita and her disappearance helped him and Trevor to mend fences a bit. The next was in getting paired with Iris: a huge anxiety for him has always been people knowing all his secrets, looking at him, and hating him. When Iris read his (gargantuan) file and still loved him and wanted to help him still, that played a huge part.
As did her trust in him, giving him back his powers with the very important limitation of needing consent. Boy howdy did that consent thing come up a LOT and every time he had to ask about it and work around it and deal with it, he got to see how it worked out so much better in many ways, how having people's trust was something fragile that he could lose if he fucked up, etc.
And that isn't to say that he didn't fuck up. He killed the FUCK out of Johann and then did some torturous shit to him for killing Iris after he said not to (god complex still a complex when you're god? tune in next week) and when Dorian questioned him on it after he offered to help non-powered wardens survive shit, he had the fun experience of 'I fucked up and part of it was just anger but now I have to pretend it was me being Just That Bad' and Iris walked him through it.
Next was Hancock, a relationship that started as lust and turned into love through Hancock's unrelenting grace and acceptance of him. Even when he found out about John ending the world, he got the CONTEXT of that choice (pure desperation and trauma) and was able to accept it and love him anyway. This, alongside Iris's steadfast support and belief, helped him to get through the many floods and breaches that poked right into his still-open wounds about the end of the world and his part in it and the losses he took.
The loss of Hancock was huge for him, but his inability to do anything about it forced him to trust and let others care for him. His friendship with Kiki and Eiffel and some of the other people he let in slowly helped to make him remember what it is to just be a person, and how much he ENJOYS just being a person and not some emperor. And through it all, his inability to 'fix' any fuckups by cheating kept eating away at his arguments that he 'had to do it like that'.
Eventually, though, he fell in love again, this time with Astarion. And Astarion means the world to him, very much, and made him start Trying Again. With Hancock, Hancock was doing most of the heavy lifting of care, but he started trying to do that for Astarion, being the supportive partner. It made him realize how much he really doesn't want to go back to his world as he is, doesn't want to be emperor, doesn't think that place needs him. He started thinking of futures that had him elsewhere in a serious sense.
The dreamlands gave him the opportunity to live through one of his other horrific moments, fuck up again, and then... fix it but without taking away memories or headfuckery as he had. And when Richter upset Edwin, he stepped in and tried to calm things down before anyone made any stupid or hasty decisions.
He failed. Richter died. And he was angry but he didn't act. And when Edwin came back to him to apologize, he actually was happy that he had enough time and space not to do the reactionary action. He even realized that he was glad that he'd paused before killing the Billionaires, giving up his inappropriate hatred of the Blood of Eden as being some projection shit and anger at the wrong people that ultimately are dead now.
Last piece was figuring out he had no interest in wardening: he needs to not tell anyone how to deal with their shit for a while and figure out his own shit. So yeah, he's heading out. He'll be figuring out where and how but he's not going to stick around long.
Not bad for a 10,000 year career of fuckery.